After Effects Apprentice: 01 CC Pre-Roll

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Released

2/18/2016

This short course is designed for new users of Adobe After Effects CC, and those who might need a refresher—especially when moving to Creative Cloud. Chris Meyer leads a whirlwind tour of After Effects, helping overcome the "blank canvas" fear that confronts many new motion graphics artists the first time they launch the application. It's an excellent introduction to the After Effects Apprentice series, and a great overview for any new user starting an After Effects training program. Start watching to learn how to customize the interface, import and interpret footage, preview work, and render and export your compositions.

If you are still using a pre–Creative Cloud version of After Effects, such as CS6, we suggest you watch After Effects Apprentice 01: CS Pre-Roll instead. There have been numerous changes to the After Effects interface, especially in the area of previewing.

Topics include:

Understanding what's where in After Effects CC

Customizing the user interface

Importing sources, including essential settings

Managing compositions and composition hierarchies

Previewing work

Rendering (and exporting) an After Effects project

Skill Level Beginner

54m 31s

Duration

59,354

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- Hi, I'm Chris Meyer of Krish Designand welcome to the After Effects Apprentice CC Pre-Roll.This very short course is designedfor those who've never used After Effects before,or for those who've used it in the past,been away for a while, come back and maybe beena little intimidated by the CC user interface.Don't worry, we're gonna give you the completelay of the land and show you howto get around inside After Effects.We're gonna give you an overviewof how the user interface is laid out,show you how to navigate itand customize it to your own personal tastes,how to import and interpret your footage sources,how to manage composition hierarchies,very important for advanced After Effects work,and many ways to preview your work,including understanding caching, and setting upthe work area, how to start a renderfrom inside After Effects, and how to export a compositionto Adobe Media and code it for rendering.

Now, we're not going to be creating anythinginside this particular course, the whole ideais just to get you comfortable withthe lay of the land inside After Effects.A blank canvas can be intimidating,so let's get you familiar with that user interfaceso that you don't have to worry about it when you startto learn and enjoy After Effects, particularlyfor the rest of the After Effects Apprentice courses.So, with that said, let's dive inand learn about that application window in After Effects.